Earth Days (2009) on Netflix
NR20091h 30mDocumentary
Biologist Paul Ehrlich and Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand are among the pioneers. Their accounts span the environmental movement from the post-war 1950s to Earth Day 1970.
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- Rotten Tomatoes82%
Plot summary
Through personal testimony and archival recordings, the film traces how awareness of the environmental crisis grew in the United States and how a popular movement arose to confront it. It covers the years after the Second World War and the 1962 book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson up to the Earth Day celebration in 1970. Among the pioneers who appear are former United States Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, biologist Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, Dennis Meadows, a scientist and Emeritus Professor of Systems Management, former Republican Pete McCloskey, Denis Hayes and Hunter Lovins.
Cast
- Denis Hayesas Himself
- Stewart Brandas Himself
- Rachel L. Carsonas Herself (archive footage)
- Hunter Lovinsas Herself
- Pete McCloskeyas Himself
- Gaylord Nelsonas Himself (senator) (archive footage)
